There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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